Writing: Essay of communication

It is a very well-known fact that due to new technologies in the last twenty years things in the communication world have changed a lot. Before the comming up of the new technologies there were two ways of keeping in touch with people who lived far away: phone and mail.

But recently the situation has evolved because of the new forms of communication which have appeared: video chat, email, chat room, instant messaging and so on.

In this essay I am going to assess what are the benefits and drawbacks of these forms of communication.

Starting with the oldest, the mail is cheap but very slow. Besides it is formal and when it appeared meant a social revolution because for the first time communication with far places was possible.

Continuing with the phone, it made instant communication real. However it is expensive and it does not reach everywhere.

We can say that traditional forms of communication like phone and traditional mail seem to belong to another time when the pace of life used to be slower than nowadays.

On the other hand, I am going to evaluate new forms of communication all together because all of them have the same pros and cons and are based on smart phones.

From my point of view, the main adavantages of text messaging, chat room, instant messaging, or another thing we can think of are:

- They are relatively cheap, because their prices have decreases a lot lately.

- Communication is instantaneous and twenty foour hours a day, because they run on mobile phones and almost everybody owns one.

- Using them means that you can communicate with any part of the world. In that sense world has become smaller.

On the contrary, there are some disadvantages:

- Some people have become addicted to instant communication.

- Some businesses give their employees smart phones because in that way they can control their lives twenty four hours a day.

- People have lost their privacy, because thanks to social networks their lives are more public.

- Personal contact has been cut down. It is usual to go to a restaurant and people who are in the same table are not talking to each other because they are paying attention to their mobile phones.

In conclusion, these new tecnologies have spread quickly because they have outstanding benefits. But we need to be careful using them, in some sense they can make us feel more isolated, which is a paradox.